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There are seven weeks left in the 2025 regular season. Whether you’re rooting for Dallas to extend its year into the playoffs or for a higher 2026 draft pick, we’ve got you covered in the Cowboys fans’ Week 12 rooting guide.
While we wish that Dallas had more games left to turn their season around, the shortening road to Week 18 does help us make better analysis of the eventual standings. As variables diminish, projections get more accurate. So the closer we get to the regular-season finales, we’ll be able to dig even deeper into the potential impact of each game.
Before we get to the Week 12 schedule, let’s spend a few minutes on where Dallas currently sits in both the playoff and draft races. We’ll start with the more immediate goal of making the tournament.
Current 2025 NFC Playoff Standings
1. Philadelphia Eagles 8-2 (7-1 vs NFC)
2. Los Angeles Rams 8-2 (3-2)
3. Chicago Bears 7-2 (5-2)
4. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 6-4 (4-2)
5. Seattle Seahawks 7-3 (4-3)
6. Green Bay Packers 6-3-1 (4-2-1)
7. San Francisco 49ers 7-4 (7-2)
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8. Detroit Lions 6-4 (3-3)
9. Carolina Panthers 6-5 (4-2)
10. Dallas Cowboys 4-5-1 (2-4-1)
Anyone who feels this is too tall an order for the Cowboys is not being unfair. They’re three wins behind the seventh-seeded 49ers and have two teams in front of them. One of those, Carolina, does have a head-to-head tiebreaker. However, that likely won’t matter, as the tie in Dallas’ overall record would render it irrelevant. If the Cowboys can at least have the same number of wins as the Panthers at the end of the year, they’d have a slightly higher winning percentage (thanks to the tie) and thus move above them in the standings.
One reason for optimism is that the NFC North and NFC West are about to get into the thick of division play, which means several potential losses for teams ahead of Dallas on this list. As long as one team in each of those divisions, like the Packers or 49ers, takes the majority of those losses, that could pave the way for the Cowboys to move up. The Bucs and Panthers also still have two games to play against one another, so a lot could happen.
Of course, this is all predicated on Dallas turning its own play around and winning the majority of its remaining games. If they can at least get to nine wins, meaning winning five of the next seven, that could be enough. A nine-win team has made the NFC playoffs in three of the last four seasons. And remember, 9-7-1 is a better overall record than 9-8. It still remains to be seen if Dallas’ tie with Green Bay helps or hurts them in the end.
For those of you who’ve given up on the current season, let’s look ahead to April.
Current 2026 NFL Draft Order (as projected by Tankathon)
1. Tennessee Titans 1-9
2. New York Giants 2-9...
